Hi. My name is Philo and I'm going to be Greek when I finally get to Earth. I understand that somehow the islands are not going to stay as nice as they are now because the sea is getting more acid and the sea level is rising and some nice little places along the shore will be underwater by the time I'm old enough to swim. All I can say is, I hope you nice people alive in 2007 and 2008 will be able to plant more trees and cut down on the amount of methane and carbon dioxide that is pumping into the air. I don't know how you can do it, because there are several billion people in Asia alone who don't have motor bikes yet, and many more who want them, or want to upgrade to automobiles and SUVs, vans, and trucks in the next ten years. That's going to mean a lot more people will be burning gasoline or alcohol or other fuels, and that will create more heat and more "greenhouse gases" that trap heat in the atmosphere of the planet. I'm not born yet, but even now, with just a little common sense, I can see that things will be getting much worse before they ever get better, so I'm asking Dr. Waug to put this in his blog for me.
Take care, and please see that you wake people up to see this problem. It's a matter of what philosophers call "the just savings principle." You guy have an obligation to leave us something of value as a legacy, and one thing I'm really concerned about it the quality of life in Greece in the year 2082. I'm not sure when I'll be born, but if I'm alive then, and able to go to the beach by myself then, to swim or fish, I hope things will still be decent enough for us.
Oh, I almost forgot to say I'm a WAUG kid, part of the What About Us? Generation. We're not being selfish, we're just hoping to live decent lives on a decent planet, and we have to depend on you earlier arrivals to set up things so Earth does not get a lot worse as the century progresses.
Best wishes,
Philo of Athens